About Philip Holman
Lived 1593 – 1669 (aged 75–76). Philip Holman was a politician.
Philip Holman (c. 1593 – July 1669) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.
Holman was a scrivener of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He acquired property at Warkworth, Northamptonshire from the Chetwood family and rebuilt part of the manor house. He became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1638. In 1651 he was elected alderman of the City of London for Walbrook ward and was also elected Sheriff of the City of London.
In 1659, Holman was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
Holman died at the age of 76 and was buried in the church at Warkworth.
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